Traces the step by step history from 1991 to 1996 of the impacts on agriculture through policy changes implemented through global agencies and institutions and trade agreements such as the WTO, World Bank and IMF, NAFTA and the FTAA. This report documents how civil society teamed up with peasant and family farmers, farmers’ organizations and indigenous communities to form cross-boarder coalitions and networks able to respond to and counteract the destructive policies of international economic integration and global policy making on agriculture.